PHP Market Report

How well do you know your market? Find out who your most promising prospects are, and how they look like. Discover in which parts of the market your competition thrives.

Our technology market report is a detailed monthly report on the usage of PHP as server-side programming language on websites. The report comes via email as a PDF file and has over 150 pages covering this information:

Server-side Programming Languages Industry Reports

Usage ReportHow popular is each of the server-side programming languages? Shows percentages of usage for all 18 server-side programming languages that we monitor. Also shows how much these figures changed compared to the last month and to the last year.

Historical Trend ReportHow did the popularity of the server-side programming languages change over time? Shows tables and diagrams of monthly trends of usage for all server-side programming languages since January 2011.

Growth Rate ReportWhich are the fastest growing server-side programming languages? Shows the current growth rates in the usage of all server-side programming languages both in absolute figures and percentages in the last month and in the last year.

New Site Usage ReportHow popular is each of the server-side programming languages among new sites? Shows percentages of usage for all server-side programming languages among sites that were first visited in the last month, because they have only recently entered the top 10 million sites.

Top Site Usage ReportWhich server-side programming languages are primarily used by high traffic sites? Shows for each server-side programming language the share of top sites amongst all the sites that use that specific server-side programming language.

PHP Reports

Historical Trend ReportHow did the popularity of PHP change from month to month? Shows tables and diagrams of monthly trends of usage for PHP since May 2010.

Version Usage ReportWhich are the most popular versions of PHP? Shows the distribution of PHP versions.

Cummulative Version Distribution ReportWhich percentage of sites use a newer version of PHP than some specific version? Shows the cummulative distribution of PHP versions.

Historical Version Trend ReportHow did the distribution of various versions of PHP change over time? Shows tables and diagrams of monthly trends in the usage of PHP versions.

Change ReportWhich percentage of sites switched from another server-side programming language to PHP and vice versa? Shows the percentages of websites that recently changed between PHP and other server-side programming languages. It also shows examples of sites that made a change.

Ranking Breakdown ReportIs the popularity of PHP higher amongst high traffic sites? Shows usage of PHP broken down by popularity ranges of the Alexa ranking, that is amongst the top 1 million sites, the top 100,000, the top 10,000 and the top 1,000 sites. Also shows the popularity rank of PHP amongst all server-side programming languages in these ranges and the most popular competing technology.

Market Position ReportWhere in the market diagram lies PHP? Shows the market position of PHP in terms of popularity and usage by high traffic sites, compared to the most popular server-side programming languages.

Multiple Server-side Programming Languages Usage ReportHow frequently are other server-side programming languages used together with PHP, and which ones? Shows statistics on the usage of PHP together with other server-side programming languages (if any). We identify here usage on the same site, not necessarily on the same page.

Cross-Technologies Breakdown and Segmentation ReportsIn which markets is PHP particularily strong and which one is the most popular competing technology in each market? A set of reports evaluating the combined usage of two categories of web technologies. This shows, for example, the usage of PHP on any top level domain compared to its usage on all websites and the most popular competing technology on each top level domain. Also shows the rank of PHP amongst all server-side programming languages for each top level domain, compared to its overall rank. Furthermore, this includes the ranking and percentages of all top level domains amongst all the sites that use PHP.

These detailed reports are available not only for top level domains, but also for the usage of PHP broken down by

Content Management Systems

Client-side Programming Languages

JavaScript Libraries

Markup Languages

Character Encodings

Image File Formats

Site Elements

SSL Certificate Authorities

Social Widgets

Web Servers

Operating Systems

JavaScript Content Delivery Networks

Traffic Analysis Tools

Advertising Networks

Tag Managers

Top Level Domains

Content Languages

Geographical Distribution ReportHow popular is PHP in each country? Shows a colored world map indicating the usage percentage of PHP by country.

List of the 300 most popular sites using PHP including their usage of other server-side programming languages (if any).

List of up to 300 popular sites that started using PHP in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month), including the server-side programming languages they were using before (if any).

List of up to 300 popular sites that discontinued using PHP in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month), including the server-side programming languages they are using now (if any).

Please see technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys, and read our disclaimer to learn about possible incompleteness and inaccuracy of our data.

Table of Content

This is a preview of the current report's table of content.

1. About this Survey

3

2. Quick Summary

5

3. Server-side Programming Languages, Industry Overviews

6

3.1. Usage Overview

6

3.2. Historical Trends

7

3.2.1. Monthly Usage

7

3.2.2. Yearly Usage

9

3.3. Growth Rates

11

3.4. New Site Usage

12

3.5. Top Site Usage

13

4. PHP, Technology Usage Reports

14

4.1. Historical Trends

14

4.2. Versions

18

4.2.1. Distribution

18

4.2.2. Cumulative Distribution

22

4.2.3. Historical Monthly Trends

27

4.2.4. Historical Yearly Trends

30

4.3. Changes

34

4.4. Ranking Breakdown

35

4.5. Market Position

36

4.6. Multiple Server-side Programming Languages Usage

37

4.7. Breakdown and Segmentation Reports

39

4.7.1. Content Management Systems

39

4.7.2. Client-side Programming Languages

52

4.7.3. JavaScript Libraries

54

4.7.4. Markup Languages

57

4.7.5. Character Encodings

59

4.7.6. Image File Formats

63

4.7.7. Site Elements

65

4.7.8. SSL Certificate Authorities

69

4.7.9. Social Widgets

73

4.7.10. Web Servers

77

4.7.11. Operating Systems

81

4.7.12. JavaScript Content Delivery Networks

83

4.7.13. Traffic Analysis Tools

85

4.7.14. Advertising Networks

94

4.7.15. Tag Managers

102

4.7.16. Top Level Domains

104

4.7.17. Content Languages

129

4.8. Geographical Distribution

137

4.9. Popular Sites using PHP

138

4.10. Sites using PHP only recently

144

4.11. Sites that recently stopped using PHP

150

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